PowerPoint 2013 videos and tutorials

You created slides for your presentation, and now you’re thinking about slide design: the background design, font styles, colors, and layouts. You want the slides to have a bit more visual pop. How do you get that? With themes. Themes provide a complete slide design for your presentation.

You’ve finished creating your presentation, and now you want to print handouts for your audience. PowerPoint gives you several choices: you can print full page slides, multiple slides per page, or slides with your presenter notes or room for the audience to take notes next to the slides. If you want richer formatting, you can use Word to edit content, apply styles, and then print.

These videos show you how to add color, textures, pictures, or remove them from a PowerPoint slide or deck. We’ll show how to customize your colors and some design tips so the background doesn’t overwhelm your presentation. Also, a bit about Master Slides that may help your add or remove a watermark or logo.

Group shapes when you have multiple shapes that you want to treat as a unit. When you’re working with multiple pictures, group them to make it easier to position and format them. If you have grouped shapes or pictures and need to change or rearrange items in the group, it’s sometimes easiest to ungroup items and then regroup. This course will show you how to do all of these things, and more.

Do you print your PowerPoint slides to hand out afterward? We’ll show you how to do it, and our guest, author and presentation expert Rick Altman, explains how you can avoid “handout hell,” where neither the slides nor the handouts are effective.

You’ve got a meeting coming up where several team members will be presenting. So how do you jumble and juggle multiple PowerPoint presentations without reinventing wheels, losing pieces or looking unprofessional? We’ll look at a few ways to make a new presentation out of slides you already have, and see how you can take the same slide deck to several meetings and give customized, unique presentations at each one.

Do you know the best way to begin with PowerPoint? Do you think about where to sit in a meeting room? We’ll show these are other simple steps to make your next presentation do more with less sweat in this webinar.

It's known as a watermark — some sort of background image that can appear throughout a PowerPoint presentation. Like a company logo, for example. Use watermarks for identification or branding, for security or legal purposes, or simply as a design or decorative element.

When you want to print handouts in PowerPoint, you can choose most of the handout settings in Print view. But for a few handout settings, you need to change the handout master, a page that contains the master layout and properties for handouts.

When we talk about headers and footers in a presentation, we mean the small details near the top or bottom of your slides. Like the slide number, a text footer, and the date. Headers and footers appear in various positions, depending on the theme and slide layout. You choose which headers and footers to show and what the text footer says. Take this course to learn how to add and customize them.

You can animate just about anything in PowerPoint 2013. It's easy to do. Animate text, pictures, charts, shapes, and more. And you can create some pretty amazing presentations with lots of motion path animations.

You want to use your presentation as a template, or master, that you and others can update and change as necessary. You’d keep the formatting and text you always want in the presentation, and where new content needs to be added, you could use placeholder text as a guideline for authors. You could include formatting, too, such as the frame style on a picture placeholder, to save other authors’ time and help ensure consistency. Just save your presentation as a template to do all this and more.

You have a video file on your computer that you want to play in your presentation. This short course will show you how to insert it and select play settings. You'll also see how to trim the video for length, add opening and closing fades, and format it with a poster frame. And if there’s a video on YouTube that you want to play in your presentation, we'll show you how to do that, too.

If you want to play music in the background of a slide show and time the slides to fit the music, this course is for you. You'll learn how to make your presentation file smaller and more manageable for sharing, trim a music clip so it fits the length of the slide show, add a fadeout to give a clip a more natural ending, and play a clip for only a particular section of your slides.

You can trigger an animation effect to begin playing at the start of, or sometime during, an audio or video clip. You can also trigger an animation effect to start when you click the shape or other object that has the animation applied.

Slide masters are designed to help you create great looking presentations in less time, without a lot of effort. When you want all your slides to contain the same fonts and images (such as logos), make those changes to the slide master.